Sentences with phrase «with gimmicks like»

With no gimmicks like a digital stylus or a foldable keyboard dock, it's easy to forget about the Optik.

He didn't do it with gimmicks like an app that rounds up credit card purchases to the nearest dollar and deposits the difference in an investing account, giving you the impression you're saving while you're actually spending.

, but with a gimmick like this, they may be thinking it's not necessary.

Not exact matches

The best kind of promotion WOULD N'T it be nice if advertising executives the world over told it like it is instead of trying to dazzle us with gimmicks and slogans?

Written down between stories of his victories with the Lakers and Bulls, some of Jackson's leadership gimmicks feel cheesy — the kind of leadership - seminar tactics espoused by the likes of The Office's Michael Scott.

Stick with ETFs that have high daily trading (yes, they can fold like underperforming mutual funds), don't buy into gimmicks or sectors unless you really know what you are doing, and as the article mentions watch the spreads and the premiums; these things don't always trade at NAV.

If a young woman in Scotland hadn't dreamed up the «pre-tribulation fly - away» in 1830; if a British clergyman hadn't hijacked her dream and sneakily planted it around the world in the 1800s; if a crooked, jailed - for - forgery lawyer with no theological background hadn't come out with a reference Bible in 1909 with the same fly - away escapism in marginal notes; and if modern - day rapture robber barons and tribulational tycoons hadn't found numerous ways (and gimmicks like four «blood moons») to widely mass - market the same delicious delusion for the masses while breaking sales records, no one could now be into the moonshine, looking up at the moon and saying «Moon, you mush be drunk becaush I shee four of you!»

And I'm so with you about marketing gimmicks like «free - range» and «cage - free.»

After all, the 2015 fan survey revealed that fans would like to see a more competitive F1 with fewer gimmicks — and that's essentially what Ross has said he'd like to achieve.

But it played well with the image of Mr Osborne as a wise and prudent future chancellor - not offering bribes or gimmicks to the public like Labour do and speaking honestly about the state of the nation.

Cuomo's budget division says it will cover most of the $ 3.5 billion deficit with unspecified cuts (and some accounting gimmicks, no doubt, like re-classifying certain spending programs) that hold operating spending growth to 2 percent.

5) Best Tourist Gimicks — Like any big city there are loads of tourist shops all around Paris but the absolute best gimmick can be found in the little shops around the Sacre Coeur — here if you look carefully you will find Parisian gimmicks with more of an arty / trendy flair

as a owner of a Wii u i find it very disappointing system, the game pad is a very mixed bag i mean it could work really well like the off screen game play works great but for the fact that you never really need to play off screen for any game and in fact i think the game loses a certain enjoyment level like NSMBU it mean it works but you lose some of those great looks the game has and i find colors to be washed out, next with the game bad is that they use it as a gimmick in quite a few games (zombu) and i found that over a long game play with having to look up and then down every few seconds to every minute in about 1 - 3 hours i had a huge head ache which sucked, next the biggest issue with the system is that 32 GB console are you kidding me 32 GB only?

If the gasps and guffaws during my screening are any indication, it's likely Blumhouse will have another crowd - pleasing franchise on its hands (Happy Death Day 2 is on the way, along with sequels to other Blumhouse hits like The Purge, Insidious and Unfriended) with a nifty, if derivative, gimmick that lends itself to multiple sequels.

Like the first, longer trailer, this suggests great things with a creepy gimmick that could make this a hugely unsettling watch.

However, with no 3 - D option offered, they'll miss the payoff, which must have been significant (at least in theory) based on the way the film serves up such illusions with nearly the regularity of gimmick - based theme park attractions like Honey, I Shrunk the Audience and Muppet * Vision 3D.

Gimmick or not, it really makes us feel like we're inside this theater along with the characters.

This central story is told like a somewhat over-hyped thriller, shot with gimmicks that add overwrought urgency, even though there's never any actual tension.

It feels like Johnson painted himself into a corner with his time travel story and retrofitted it with this additional gimmick to get himself out.

Frank is more like a gimmick film with nothing left on the page to make this giant headed lead singer very interesting.

The last decade or so has seen the genre been stuck with gimmicks, like the «torture porn» craze that came with the likes of the Saw franchise and Hostel, or the «found footage» boom emerged following the massive success of the atrocious Paranormal Activity films.

Hooper asks incredulously after he's told that a band called Shithead recorded the ending theme), but also «credit» Hooper with insisting on changes to their screenplay that stick out like a sore thumb, such as the elimination of a passage of time between the prologue and our introduction to the Barrows that more or less imposes an awkward real - time gimmick on the proceedings.

The problem, however, is that it's filmed like absolute dogshit; the gimmick of filming most of it through the GoPro car cameras is combined with extremely disorienting and hyperkinetic editing to make the car chases nearly incomprehensible.

When you see a game that looks like Hotline Miami but with a neat new gimmick, it definitely seems promising.

April 17, 2017 - When you see a game that looks like Hotline Miami but with a neat new gimmick, it definitely seems promising.

It's less Philip K. Dick than Medgar Evers) and its attempts to pull in some literary credibility with a running gimmick about Hansel & Gretel (had Spooner really read the fairytale, he would've solved the mystery a lot quicker), I, Robot plays like a tug - of - war between a smart source material and some really venal, really cynical studio wonks.

It's like The Goonies meets Rebel Without a Cause, but with vampires, and that last gimmick alone makes it somehow appealing enough for horror fans.

Released in theaters 40 years ago in October, the super -»70s flick had a cool title, a killer poster, a score by Jerry Goldsmith, a cast that included George Peppard, Jan - Michael Vincent, Paul Winfield, Jackie Earle Haley, and Dominique Sanda — and the ultimate post-apocalyptic survival vehicle: The Landmaster.It capitalized on cold - war fears that nuclear armageddon was right around the corner, and what we'd be left with would be a radioactive wasteland, plagued by bizarre weather patterns and populated by mutated insects and deadly scavengers.The film also had a gimmick: Like BATTLESTAR GALACTICA's limited 1978 theatrical run that was released in «Sensurround,» DAMNATION ALLEY boasted a big - screen release bathed in «Sound 360» — basically full - range stereo speakers turned up to 11 to envelop the viewer and make the seats vibrate (a technique also used for the release of DAMIEN: OMEN II).

If the states get to decide on their own what proficiency and college and career readiness looks like state - by - state then many of the same gimmicks and obfuscations we have now about student performance will persist, just alongside a new set of standards and with the illusion of commonality.

As cool as the infra - red night vision is (and it's so cool, if you're a geek like me), it's more of a gimmick than a tool — as is the blind - spot warning system, when you're driving an A7 with the awesome European - market side view mirrors.

Why can't they just put a windscreen on it or even better make it a coupe and rival the porsche GT3 with it??? It just looks like a gimmick.

Being McLaren, you could expect all sorts of techie gimmicks, like active aero both front and rear, computer controlled suspension with Kinetic roll system (K - damper).

If there's a gimmick at all in the A5's design, it's in the running lights, a series of LEDs under each headlamp that looks too much like eyeliner applied with a heavy hand.

For each book I would probably also need a gimmick or case study (which I can do with non-fiction)... for example in a book about book reviews, I would do a test launch of one of my own books, and share my secrets and results, under an exciting title like «How I got 300 reviews in under 1 hour from no list from total strangers.»

As well as packing the tablet with significantly more storage than the Kindle Fire, Barnes has also got gimmicks like «Read and Record», where parents can record themselves reading their kids» favourite stories so they don't actually have to be there at bedtime.

Wikitude launched on BlackBerry with OS 7.0 introducing BlackBerry users to augmented reality with less gimmicks than other platforms by using tools like BBM integration.

I won't go for the gimmick, but I notice many indie authors are teaming up with like minded authors and that is where I get many of my next book ideas from.

Stick with ETFs that have high daily trading (yes, they can fold like underperforming mutual funds), don't buy into gimmicks or sectors unless you really know what you are doing, and as the article mentions watch the spreads and the premiums; these things don't always trade at NAV.

Working with Affirm is simple and secure — you won't have to worry about gimmicks and catches like deferred interest or hidden fees.

It's always good to have input from the younger generation of Nintendo rather than just the seasoned professionals, I mean even Shigeru is losing his touch (see: less story - oriented, more gimmick focused Paper Mario like Sticker Star / Color Splash, Star Fox Zero's control wonkiness along with it essentially being Star Fox 64 Remake # 120029, single analog stick for original 3DS, etc) even though he has helped make many of my favorite games throughout his time at Nintendo.

I do believe the power of the Xbox 1x is a gimmick for marketing, let's not pretend like Nintendo hasn't done this as well with varying results.

I don't really care about the gimmick one way or the other; Jackbox games are played the same way and are incredibly enjoyable, though it does feel odd to use such an advanced machine with specifically - designed controllers for games like this.

The console also features a sound tool — which allows you to record sounds using the in - built microphone, which you can then manipulate by altering the pitch and adding various effects, but generally seems like a pretty useless gimmick to play around with.

They built a gimmick that resonated with non-gamers, (or «suckers» as I like to call them) found out that there's a virtually limitless supply of these suckers, and left the rest of us to rot.

A level will indicate that the section has a 3D segment with a box before each level telling the player that 3D is required, making the 3DS 3D feature not feel like a gimmick, but more of a necessity.

Just like the Wii before it, the Kinect began its life with games hinged on a gimmick, and that gimmick is, «Whoa, I'm just moving my body and things are happening on screen!

As a sidenote, I actually liked Kirby's Epic Yarn — it was fun at least until all the «yarn / string» gimmicks were used up, and the game turned ran out of steam, and turned into a typical overly difficult and overly demanding, soulless production line platformer with the annoying ice caves and all (is there any platformer that doesn't have an ice cave?).

It started with childish gimmicks like motion controls.

If there's that kind of commitment to a bit it doesn't even feel like a gimmick — it can feel like a team is having fun with their premise, and hopefully that translates across to us when we get a fuller look at Headlander.

With regards to VR in general, I hear a lot of people saying things like gimmick, and fad.